Morning News: Exciting New Eurostar Train Routes

With newly launched Eurostar service from London to Southern France “passengers can now travel from the Thames to the Mediterranean without changing trains,” Elaine Moore reports. The new departures are “perhaps the most exciting since the first trains ran from London under the English Channel to Paris and Brussels on November 14, 1994.” (FT)

Passengers will continue to have the option to use their electronic devices at all stages of flight, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled recently. The FAA changed the rules about device use in 2013. (Ars Technica)

Some donors supporting the restoration of the Milan Duomo will get insider access to buildings and guesthouses not normally open to tourists, according to The New York Times. In a piece about the ongoing work of Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano, the organization the maintains the iconic church, and the International Patrons of Duomo di Milano, an affiliated charity, Michael T. Luongo reports that “Patron donors will also have a chance to stay in a guesthouse inside the Fabbrica palace during an October tour ... The October tour also includes a stay in the Villa Manzoni, the home of the Italian author Alessandro Manzoni in Brusuglio, outside of Milan, which is not normally open to the public.” (NYT)

An op-ed call to close LaGuardia sure was sensational, but it wasn’t very realistic, aviation analyst Robert Mann tells USA Today. (USA Today)

Today in stunts: The cruise line Hapag-Lloyd will host a “surprise cruise” in 2016, on which passengers will not know the ports of call ahead of time. It leaves from Istanbul on May 14. (USA Today)